Pay Back

He was hooked up to a complicated machine in Nikky's lab. After a while, she walked up to him with the results. "I can't believe I am saying this, but it would seem that your cells are too depressed to heal." 

Those words sounded as ridiculous as Lenny had heard them. However, they were true. Depression had left her mark. Lenny remembered that Depression said she had cursed him, but he had not exactly thought of it to be a problem. 

After all, was it really possible?

lenny waved his hand and and threw a little core, shaped like a star to Nikky, "After I destroyed her, she left this behind, analyze it as fast as possible, and tell the others to be careful." 

A quick bandage to the wound that would not heal was placed on his chest and Lenny left the lab back to the garden. 

"Satan System, what was that 'Depression'?"